Bunnykins matching cards

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Make & Do Activity Kit

Bunnykins card set This card set features Bunnykins figurines from the Powerhouse Museum’s collection and have been chosen with an Australian theme in mind. They make a lovely gift for Easter or to play with during the Easter holidays.

Time: 1+ hrsDifficulty:Hints: Print out extra sets of Bunnykins cards to play with more players. Use high grade paper to print your cards to make sure your bunnykins look great!

Print out 2 or more sets of Bunnykins templates. Roughly cut out each card. Keep the front and back of your cards joined together at the centre as shown.

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Trim each card carefully around the edges and then fold straight down the middle as shown.

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Use glue to stick the back and front together. Make sure you spread glue right to the edges and each corner. Check your alignment on both sides.

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Allow the glue to dry.4.

Trim all the cards to neaten them up. Check both front and back.

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These Bunnykins matching cards can be used to play 1 player memory games, matching games or snap and other multi player games.

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• printed templates• paper glue

• scissors• Optional: A laminator

What you will need:

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Laminating your cardsTo make your cards last much longer you can use a laminator. 4 cards should fit on an A4 laminating sheet.




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The much loved Royal Doulton Bunnykins collection began in 1934 with the drawings of Barbara Vernon, a young nun. Barbara’s drawings were inspired by her idyllic childhood and feature the fun and innocent adventures of a family of eight bunnies in the village of Little Twitching. Her father was Cuthbert Bailey, the manager of the Royal Doulton factory, and he saw the potential for his daughter’s drawings as a range of nurseryware.

The success of Bunnykins saw the range expand into light-hearted Bunnykins figurines of which the Powerhouse Museum has a wonderful collection. Today, 80 years later, Bunnykins continues to delight the young at heart the world over.

The story of Bunnykins

Australian themed Bunnykins at the Powerhouse Museum

Royal Doulton have so far released over 300 different Bunnykins figures in countries around the world, with Australia being a very enthusiastic market.

The first figure with an Australian theme was the 1984 ‘Olympic Bunnykins’ in green-and-gold produced exclusively for Australian distribution. It was also the first example of Bunnykins to enter The Powerhouse Museum’s Collection. It was followed by ‘Australian Bunnykins’, another sport-loving rabbit in a green-and-gold sport uniform, launched in 1987 in anticipation of Australia’s bicentenary in 1988. ‘Surfer Bunnykins’ and ‘Eureka Bunnykins’ were added in the 1990s - examples of these were part of a large collection of Bunnykins figurines donated to the Powerhouse Museum by the Sydney collector Robert Walmsley. Inspired by an early Bunnykins porridge bowl, a treasured memento of his childhood, Walmsley started building his Bunnykins collection in the mid 1970s.

Designed in Australia to commemorate the Sydney 2000 Olympics Games, the ‘Bunnykins games’ set was the next design with an Australian theme and it consisted of five ‘sporty’ Bunnykins depicted as playing sports characteristic of five continents: soccer (Europe), basketball (USA), running (Africa), swimming ( Australia) and gymnastics (Asia). The limited edition ‘Federation Bunnykins’ figure soon followed, and during the next decade new figures were added such as ‘Waltzing Matilda’, ‘Digger Bunnykins,’ ‘Captain Cook Bunnykins’, ‘Centenary Scout Bunnykins’, ‘Surf Lifesaver Bunnykins’ and ‘Flying Doctor Bunnykins’.

‘Victa Bunnykins’, ‘Bush Fire Fighter Bunnykins’, ‘Howzat Bunnykins’, ‘Billycart Bunnykins’, ‘G’Day Mate Tableau’ , ‘Outdoor Dunny Bunnykins’, and ‘Queensland SES Bunnykins’ are recent Australian additions to the series. Like many of the figurines that preceded them, these were designed in Australia by Wendy Boyce-Davies.

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